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22 find none but blackberries, dew-barries, corvels, and wild apples, and upon these they lived, wandering from place to place for the space of three days, and then laying themselves down on a mossy bank they died with grief and hunger and the bones of them were found many years after, covered with leaves by the Robin Redbreast, singing a mournful ditty.

XII.

How God plagued Androgus, and how after many afflictions, he died in prison.

NDROGUS being informed by Rawbones that the children were murdered, inwardly rejoiced, seiz’d on the estate which was, and within six months after produced a letter from a pretended cousin, that they were dead of the small pox at London, for whose deaths many lamented, nor was Timesia, who loved them dearly behind in sorrow, blaming her husband for suffering them to leave her, shedding many and often crying out, O my dear children, why did I part with you, thus to be bereft of a great part of my comfort.

Long these infants had not been dead but affrighted dreams terrified Androgus